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<author>&Pamela.Roberts;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>John</firstname><surname>Knight</surname><affiliation><address><email>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit> 
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<date>2003-11-06</date> <releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo> </chapterinfo>

<title>Saving Settings &amp; Profiles</title>
<sect1 id="save-settings-general">
<title>General Settings</title>
<para>When you close down &konqueror; your current <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu settings (such as the <guimenuitem>View Mode</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Use index.html</guimenuitem> and <guimenuitem>Show Hidden Files </guimenuitem> items) are automatically saved as the default options to be used next time &konqueror; is started.</para>

<para>But you can also specify different <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu settings for an individual folder. To do this check the <guimenuitem>View Properties Saved in Folder</guimenuitem> box in the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu, change the <guimenu>View</guimenu> settings to whatever you want then uncheck the <guimenuitem>View Properties saved in Folder</guimenuitem> box. Doing this creates a <filename>.directory</filename> file in that folder to hold the folder <guimenu>View</guimenu> settings. Use the <menuchoice><guimenu> Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Remove Folder Properties</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> option to remove the folder specific settings (or just delete the <filename>.directory</filename> file).</para>
<note><para>One nice use of this feature is if you have a folder full of pictures. You can set that particular folder to display thumbnails of the pictures (by choosing <guimenuitem>Icon View</guimenuitem> and <menuchoice> <guisubmenu>Preview</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Show Previews</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> from the <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu) when you open it, while not displaying images as thumbnails in other folders.</para></note>
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<sect1 id="save-settings-view-profiles">
<title>View Profiles</title>
<para>&konqueror; can save a whole set of options as a <quote>View Profile</quote>. Some view profiles are part of the standard &konqueror; installation, such as <property>Web Browsing</property> and <property>File Management</property>, but you can add your own, too.</para>

<para>To modify a view profile (say, the <property>Web Browsing</property> profile), load the profile with <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guisubmenu>Load View Profile</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Web Browsing</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>, and change the &konqueror; settings to whatever you want. Now select <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save View Profile "Web Browsing"...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. In the dialogue which appears, you can change the name of the profile, which will create a new profile with that name, or you can leave the name as it is to modify the current profile. If you select <guilabel>Save URLs in profile</guilabel>, the current &URL; will be loaded when you load that view profile. This functions in a similar way to the <quote>Home Page</quote> in many web browsers. If you want &konqueror; to start up with an empty window enter <userinput>about:blank</userinput> into the location bar before saving the profile.</para>

<note><para>You can create a desktop icon to start &konqueror; with your new profile. First create a desktop icon by dragging the &konqueror; icon from the <guimenu>K</guimenu> menu onto the desktop and selecting <guimenuitem>Copy Here</guimenuitem>. Then <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on the new icon, select <guimenuitem>Properties...</guimenuitem> and change <guilabel>Program Name</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Execute</guilabel> tab page to <userinput><command>kfmclient</command> <option>openProfile <replaceable>MyNewProfile</replaceable></option></userinput>, <replaceable>MyNewProfile</replaceable> being what you called the new profile. Then in the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab page change the name to something like <filename>MyNewProfile</filename> and pick a more suitable icon.</para></note>

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